Johnston said: "Ryan Moore said he veered left in the Britannia at Ascot, we worked our horses on the track at Ascot so perhaps he knew where the gate was. I don't know what happened this time, but he'd have obviously won very well if he hadn't done it.

"He's had big entries before, we've thought about it, but he's in the QEII. Now he's won a Group Two, I suppose we'll have to go for it."

Rider James Doyle said of Captain Cat: "It was a nightmare of a race and I left him too much to do."